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Article: Stevie Wonder to Receive Gershwin Prize for Song
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- The Washington Post
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- September 3, 2008
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Stevie Wonder is already one of the most decorated artists in
pop music history, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with 25 Grammy
Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, an Oscar and multiple lifetime
achievement awards among his many accolades.
Now, the Motown legend will need to carve out a little more space
in his crowded awards room: The Library of Congress yesterday named
Wonder the winner of its second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Wonder will receive the award in the library's Great Hall on Feb.
23, with an all-star concert-cum-coronation planned for the
following night. (No performers have been announced for the gala
concert, which will be open to the public.) The soul singer,
composer ...